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Skip to comments.N. Korea: Launch Prep Complete for Additional 3 or 4 Missiles
Posted on 07/05/2006 1:10:13 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
/begin my summary
N. Korea: Launch Prep Complete for Additional 3 or 4 Missiles
Government sources said, "In addition to missiles already launched, N. Korea has set up three or four of Nodong and Scud B & C missiles on mobile launcher, with all launch preparation complete. N. Korea declared the prohibited sea-travel zone which is in effect from July 5th to 11th, due to missile launches, and banned fishing boats from leaving port. Theoretically, more launches are possible for next five days.
N. Korean missile launches so far.
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They apparently don't know how embarrassingly stupid they look........
We need to launch a Schlong at their Nodong and fast.
I wonder if we've recovered any of the missiles or parts thereof yet?...........
I just wish this guy would keep his Dong(s) to himself.
Maybe they dont look stupid and we just shot them down? Just an idea though I could be wrong.
Maybe they dont look stupid and we just shot them down? Just an idea though I could be wrong.
More launches of Scuds and Scud derivatives - this is like a junk sale with pyrotechnics.
Naw, we should send him some Diet Coke and Mentos.
The intel collection continues. I doubt the NKP understands how much they're giving away.
I doubt if we shot them down, although we most certainly could. If we did, it would be all over the world by now on all MSM and non MSM outlets.............
"this is like a junk sale with pyrotechnics."
Maybe Kim Ill saw the Boston July 4th Fireworks and is just jealous?
With a good portion of North Koreans starving, how much are all of these missile launches costing?
thought you'd be interested in this....
Probably a good chunk of their GDP.
That is damned funny! That would be more impressive than his fish-killing Scuds and "projectile dysfunctions".
They are doing this to try and get a bunch of food and financial aid.
Let them starve and let the regime fall on it's own.
No doubt we are acquiring data from their launches. It wouldn't suprise me if they were trying to goad us into intercepting one to see what our system does.
I really do not get the logic of this? Does he not think he got enough attention yesterday? Maybe it is the North Korean version of laying in the floor screaming and kicking ones feet like a three year old. I suppose if we do not accomodate them after this next round of launches that the entire nation will holds its breath until it turns blue.
Reminds me of the fireworks last night...
Japan is showing amazing restraint on this.
Imagine if Cuba were launching scuds our direction?
Great way for China to gain intel on our missile defense.
To really screw with them, Bush should just mention in an off hand way that we have already shot down the first batch, and are ready for the second.
Well, he is making a good effort (for him) on behalf of his handlers (the PRC). He even threw-in a shot in Russia's direction so that the ChiComs could observe Russian responses. The TD-2 failure is just to fun to ponder; either we whacked it (that would be a nifty demonstration of an ability to select one missile out of many) or the thing suffered as catastrophic failure (which is rather amusing).
How can such a backwarda#@ dictatorship accomplish this? Somehow, I smell clinton's excrement in this deal.
North Korea's next generation missile will be named the Long Duck Dong. ( "Donger tired. Donger need sleep" )
That way when they shoot it into the ocean, they can all say in unison "Lake! Big Lake!" right before it splashes down.
(sorry in advance for the 80's movie reference. It is my wife's favorite)
That was Rush's favority "theory" about the why's of yesterday's event..that they didn't fail, we shot them down..although he said he has no "source" that told him that.
BTW..on CNN, the WH reporter made a HUGH deal about how Bush has "learned a lesson"...and is treating N. Korea "more diplomatically"...than before Iraq.
BAH....the circumstances were different..and they know it...but OF COURSE...N. Korea isn't the bad guys..Bush is the one/only bad guy in the world right now...
HAHAHAHa, Darn, wish I thought of that one..
I don't know but Lil' Kim is sure knocking the heck out of the fish.
Japan really showed guts this morning on tv...He was hopping mmad you could tell.
That's essentially what Madelline Albright thinks. Of course NOBODY is better at laying on the floor kicking & screaming (to get attention) than a Clinton Administration official.
I may be giving away my age, but when I was a kid anything made in the Far East was made out of junk. I remember diassembling a cheap toy and finding that it was made out of an old beer can. I wouldn't be surprised if Kim Jong Mentally Il's No Dong missiles were made out of the same junk.
For them to see what the system does they would need a good signal intercept capacity. Do they have it?
He wants money. It's as simple as that.
He's upset that Iran is going to get a deal, and he wants in on a piece of the pie.
What is the point in testing the 50 year old technology of the Scud missile? Kim is just trying to get our attention.
A secret of this immense proportion could never be held for more than a few hours at the most. Every modern nation with any intelligence capability at all would detect it. Someone with a good or bad reason would tell someone about it in the media or I'net..........
The english translation is a Nojohnson.
Perhaps through selective leaking, we have convinced him that we have an invisible "mother ship" hovering directly off his East coast.
I heard someone mention today the smaller missles were based on 1950's technology...not sure if that's factual.
Why? all we have to do is pull it out of the ocean bottom if we want to analyze it............and we probably already are.......
He wants to unify Korea with him as the ruler. He knows the South will capitulate. The only thing stopping him is the US.
He's testing our wills.
Are these real or did Kim Jong Il spend his allowance from China on buying up Estes kits on E-Bay?
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Women's World Cup Players Withdraw Gender Discrimination Claim Against FIFA
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Women's soccer stars who filed a lawsuit against FIFA in a Canadian tribunal over the organization's decision to play the 2015 Women's World Cup on artificial turf surfaces withdrew their claim on Wednesday, bringing a sudden but perhaps predictable end to a dispute that began last summer. NBC Sports was first to report the decision to withdraw the claim, which was later confirmed in an email statement from the players and their attorneys.
A cadre of women's stars led by United State Women's National Team forward Abby Wambach filed their suit against FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association in October after months of threatening to do so. In the gender discrimination suit brought in an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, the players claimed that FIFA and the CSA violated Canadian law because the artificial surfaces were inferior to natural grass, and because men had never played such a major tournament on artificial turf (the next two men's World Cups are also slated for grass).
Wambach said in the statement that while the suit was unsuccessful, she hoped it drew attention to issues women's soccer players face.
"On behalf of the players, I want to thank all who aided our fight for natural grass fields at the 2015 World Cup including our volunteer lawyers from Canada and the United States," Wambach said. "Our legal action has ended. But I am hopeful that the players' willingness to contest the unequal playing fields – and the tremendous public support we received during the effort – marks the start of even greater activism to ensure fair treatment when it comes to women's sports."
Players had been outspoken about their distaste for playing on turf for months. More than three-quarters of the women's players surveyed by FIFA at the 2013 Algarve Cup, another international tournament, said that they wanted their major tournaments played on natural grass surfaces. They began speaking out on it in the media afterward — top American player Megan Rapinoe said it was "bullshit" that FIFA wanted them to play on turf during a July interview — and on social media, and in July, 40 of the world's top women's players sent a letter to FIFA threatening the legal action they ultimately took in October.
Along the way, the players garnered support from other top athletes and even from the United States Senate, where groups of lawmakers sent two separate letters to FIFA calling for it to negotiate with the players. Their case, sometimes criticized as a public relations ploy, drew attention to a central claim: that if top men's players had demanded nicer playing surfaces, as club and international teams have in the past, FIFA would have obliged without such a fight.
"It's about doing the right thing, and I think this is the right thing to do," Wambach told ThinkProgress in September. "We have to fight this fight for this World Cup and World Cups in the future. We have to make sure FIFA knows this is not OK. And they know it's not OK. If you were to ask all of them, they know that they would never do this for the men."
But the players' legal case, while allowed to go forward, suffered a setback in November when the Tribunal decided not to grant an expedited ruling, which the players wanted in order to complete the case before the World Cup begins in June. FIFA, meanwhile, refused to bend, calling the discrimination claims "nonsense" and insisting that there was "no Plan B." Wambach and other players met with FIFA officials at the organization's international awards ceremony this month and presented a compromise proposal that would have only put the semifinals, third-place match, and finals on grass, but they came away from the meeting with little hope that anything had changed.
As a result, they felt they had no choice but to withdraw the claim if the World Cup was going to go on uninterrupted by the controversy.
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Onkyo ND-S1 iPod dock - Page 14
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Any recent and well designed Dac should be able to deal with such a low level of jitter. But if you 've got cash burning your pocket just go for it.
I was also planning to upgrade the PSU (which usually cost as much as the NDS1) but comparing the Onkyo to various other sources I found my DAC was quite immune to jitter so forgot about the idea.
I haven't noticed any difference with the new PSU with the REf5 DAC as it has a good DSP but the with the DM there is a difference.
Post some photos along with impressions when you get the chance Dave!
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Just hooked up my ND-S1 with my Ipod Classic 7G 160GB and Burson 160D. So far it sounds great and its so nice being able to use the convenience of an Ipod with my main system.
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Can anyone confirm if the Onkyo ND-S1 works with the Ipod Video 5.5g?
Received my ND-S1 dock from Japan today. Plugged it into the custom made PSU from hifi cables dot uk along with my Meridian DAC via Van De Hul toslink and then to the Heed Canamp and Senn 650s. It all sounds very good. I am pleased to say my iPhone 3Gs works just fine with the ND-S1 to include the remote control for the ND-S1. Also pleased to say that streaming internet radio via the many radio apps work just fine as well, as does the iPod app in the 3Gs.
Perhaps I'll add more pixs to show the great work done on the custom ND-S1 PSU. All boxes are plugged into PS Audio's Duet Power Center 2 zone 4 outlet AC power filter providing protection and improved performance with a PS Audio Power Port AC outlet on the wall. All the gear is sitting on 'vintage' sound organisation stands.
Later, I'll add some Neotech 3001 ICs and 3001 AC power cords.
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Source, my 3Gs iPhone playing Linn Radio's Jazz station streaming at 320 kbs.
I've been running the system with the custom PSU for several weeks now. So tonight was merely substituting in the stock PSU
Simply put, NO comparison. With the stock PSU, everything sounds shut in, closed in, two dimensional, no air around the instruments or voices. The soundstage is much much wider with the custom psu. Everything is more dynamic. I wasn't expecting such a leap between the two
Bottom line, the custom psu makes me want to listen to music (exactly why I bought the Onkyo in the first place) the stock psu is uninspiring, uninvolving. hence no desire to listen to the music.
Before going to the Onkyo and an existing DAC, I was just taking the analog signal out of the LOD iPhone port into my headphone amp. That signal was uninspiring as well.
I thought about buying a $200 plus LOD cable from the iPhone to my headphone amp before I knew about the Onkyo. The wadia iPhone transport was way too much money to even consider.
All things considered, the money in the Onkyo and custom psu was a far better choice than buying a very nice analog LOD cable
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The $250 Trillion Cost Of Climate Change And Obesity
Citigroup now projects a staggering $72 trillion global cost tied to man-made climate change during the 21st century. The industrial fast food complex is directly tied to a global obesity and diabetes epidemic that now costs $2 trillion annually. These staggering economic costs don't even take into account human suffering and premature death.


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Clarity the Secret to Confidence, Wealth and Happiness
As summer is coming to a close, many of us are looking at our year end goals and asking ourselves how am I going to do what I want to do, whether it's about money, career, relationships or health. Sometimes seeing just how far we need to go can feel overwhelming and we can lose confidence, feel discouraged and even go into fear.
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BENNINGTON Frances C. Rumboldt, 88, died Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at Bennington Health and Rehabilitation Center.
She was born July 30, 1924, in Bennington, the daughter of Harry and Ruth Campbell, and received her education locally.
In earlier years, Mrs. Rumboldt was employed sewing at various Bennington area mills, including Thomson Mill, EZ Mill and CB Sports.
She enjoyed scrapbooks, puzzles, and watching and listening to birds.
Survivors include a son, Richard Rumboldt Jr. of Bennington; six grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was predeceased by her husband, Richard R. Rumboldt Sr.; four siblings, Mabel Bishop, Richard, Carl and Bill Campbell; and a stepdaughter, Rosie Dean.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the Mahar and Son Funeral Home where friends may call from 10 a.m. prior to the service.
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MILAN -- Light welterweight Frankie Gomez won a close contest with Hungary's Gyula Kate at the world championships on Friday, sending the only remaining American into the gold-medal match against Olympic bronze medalist Roniel Iglesias.
Gomez defeated Kate 8-7, landing a jab in the closing minutes of the final round to pull out the victory. Kate had evened the match moments earlier.
"It means a lot to get there," Gomez said. "It's a lot of pressure, but I like the pressure. It helps me fight better and I'm confident about tomorrow."
Olympic super heavyweight champion Roberto Cammarelle of Italy needed just 35 seconds to knock out Viktar Zuyeu, and he'll join six Russians fighting for gold on Saturday.
David Ayrapetyan will fight Serdamba Purevdorj of Mongolia in the light flyweight final, Eduard Abzalimov faces Detelin Dalakliev of Bulgaria in the bantamweight category, and Sergey Vodopiyanov meets Vasyl Lomachenko of Ukraine for the featherweight gold.
Andrey Zamkovoy takes on Jack Culcay-Keth of Germany for the welterweight title, Artur Beterbiev is against Elshod Rasulov of Uzbekhistan in the light heavyweight final, while Egor Mekhontsev needs to beat Osmai Acosta Duarte of Cuba to win the heavyweight gold.
"There is a kind of tension and pressure in the team to do better than the others," Russia coach Nikolay Kromov said. "Not only to win, but to be great. The aim is not only to win medals, but to make big scores."
Cammarelle, the defending world champion, landed a heavy left hook on Zuyeu that forced the Belarusian's corner to throw in the towel after a standing count by the referee.
Cammarelle's opponent in the final will be Ukraine's Roman Kapitonenko, who beat Olympic silver medalist Zhang Zhilei of China 5-2.
"It was what I was after, but it came sooner than I thought it would," Cammarelle said. "I would have preferred the Chinese to be honest. It is easier to see what he is doing with his movement."
The only other Italian left in the competition also made it through to his final. Domenico Valentino beat Koba Pkhakadze of Georgia 15-2, and will fight Puerto Rico's Jose Pedraza for the lightweight gold medal.
Valentino was too quick for Pkhakadze and used good footwork to score points and avoid punches. He scored immediately after the first bell and led 4-2 at the end of the first round.
In the second round, he raced away to a 9-2 lead, then saved energy while finishing it out.
"Tomorrow I hope to make history for Italian boxing," Valentino said. "I want to add my name to those who have won medals for Italy at a world championships, like Clemente Russo and Roberto Cammarelle. Tomorrow I have to show that I am a champion."


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One Man's Legal Quest to Change How We View Animals
In Review: Unlocking the Cage
Given that I've written in great detail about Steven Wise and the Nonhuman Rights Project's efforts to get some animals recognized as "persons," the basic premise and much of the convoluted legal gymnastics showcased in Unlocking the Cage were not new to me. Nevertheless, even for someone well informed on the subject matter and plotline, the documentary is a compelling watch.
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The 91-minute film by celebrated documentarians Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker (The War Room, Monterey Pop, Don't Look Back, and Kings of Pastry) follows Wise, founder of NhRP, and his colleagues over the course of three years as they file the first lawsuits aimed at changing the legal status of animals from "things" with no rights to a "person" who possesses, at the very least, the basic rights to life and liberty.
Wise, who is in his mid-60s, has spent nearly three decades developing the legal strategy for this initiative. He changed the course of his legal career to focus on animal law in 1980 after reading philosopher Peter Singer's groundbreaking 1975 treatise, Animal Liberation, and experiencing a moral epiphany.
Citing reams of scientific evidence, Wise maintains that cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins, and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights that would protect them from abuse. Recognition as legal persons, he says, would protect these animals from being held captive by private citizens, or in zoos, circuses, and theme parks. It would also save them from being subject to invasive experiments in laboratories.
The NhRP's focus on these particular species is basically a strategic choice. Given the evidence about the self-awareness and "humanlike" intelligence of great apes, elephants, and cetaceans, and the fact that none of these animals are native to the US, Wise and his team believe there's a greater chance a judge would be willing to consider granting them special status as nonhuman persons.
The NhRP's long-term goal however, is, as Wise told me back in 2104, "to punch a legal hole" through the wall that separates animals from us.
Unlocking the Cage picks up the thread of Wise's …more
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When it Comes to GMOs, the Devil is in the Details
Unresolved safety questions about gene-editing technologies underscore need for caution
While expressing support for the watered-down GMO labeling bill, which was passed by Congress last week and is now awaiting President Obama's signature, White House spokeswoman Katie Hill told Bloomberg News: "While there is broad consensus that foods from genetically engineered crops are safe, (emphasis added) we appreciate the bipartisan effort to address consumers' interest in knowing more about their food…."
Making these kinds of broad statements about all genetically modified foods being "safe" seem to be a common quirk among even among science journalists who write about GMOs. There is a tendency to describe genetically engineered crops as though they are just one thing. True, GMOs have many traits in common, but so do planes, trains, and automobiles. Writers who lump them together often ignore important subtleties and distinctions between each GMO crop, how they are created and used, as well as the damaging agricultural practices most of the transgenic crops under commercial cultivation promote.
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Consider, for example, this story at Slate.com by William Saletan which proclaims that "there's no good evidence" that GMOs are unsafe. "The deeper you dig," he writes, "the more fraud you find in the case against GMOs. It's full of errors, fallacies, misconceptions, misrepresentations, and lies."
Saletan could find no room for a single mention of the nagging, unresolved safety questions involving new gene-editing biotechnologies like RNA interference or CRISP/Cas9, or to investigate industry claims about increased crop yields, or to note that while less than a handful of GM crops like the ringspot-resistant papaya (engineered to resist a virus that once threatened to wipe out the fruit from the Hawaiian islands) have definitely helped save a fruit crop, biotech corporations have largely focused on commodity crops like corn, soy, and cotton, where the profit margin is higher.
It's not that he was crimped for space. He rambled on for 10,000 words, or about three times the length of a long-form magazine article. Although such details can annoyingly disrupt a story's overall arc, they are newsworthy nonetheless. At the time his article was published (June 2015) the safety of these newer technologies was already generating robust debates among scientists.
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The Right Climate for Learning
Climate change education, and mitigation, in our national parks
National Park Service Ranger Brian Ettling queues up his presentation on climate change with the familiar notes of the 1966 film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Ettling, who has served as a seasonal ranger at Crater Lake National Park for 23 years, began developing his talk in 2010.
Like many national parks, Oregon's Crater Lake is showing the impacts of climate change. Average snowpack has declined by 140 inches, more than 11 feet, since the 1930s. Warmer temperatures have compromised populations of pika, a small mammal that prefers rocky alpine slopes, and favored beetle populations that have killed many iconic whitebark pines that grow on Crater Lake's rim. Even the clear, deep water of the lake may be threatened, as increased water temperatures may fuel algae blooms.
When communicating these grim facts, Ettling has learned to include a healthy dose of humor. That's where the characters from the Clint Eastwood classic come in. Ettling calls the pure beauty of Crater Lake "The Good," the negative impacts of climate change on pikas "The Bad," and the destruction caused by pine bark beetles "The Ugly."
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"I firmly believe that if people are laughing with me, they are more likely to listen to a controversial subject like climate change," says Ettling.
Though he developed his ranger program for Crater Lake, Ettling first confronted the issue in a very real way while a seasonal ranger at Everglades National Park in Florida. Faced with more frequent and violent storms and the threat of sea level rise, Everglades National Park is on the front lines of climate change, and the park's interpretive staff were among the first in the NPS to proactively educate visitors on the topic.
In 2010, under the leadership of Director Jonathan Jarvis, NPS launched its formal Climate Change Response Program. One of its four directives is to incorporate climate change education throughout the park system.
The first step toward implementing this directive is to educate NPS staff. The NPS has developed training tools to this end, including webinars and a climate change communication toolkit offered through Earth to Sky, a partnership between NASA, NPS, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Seasoned rangers like Ettling have also shared tips for effective communication during conventions and …more
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Rare Leopards Released into Russian Reserve Threatened by a Ski Resort
Three endangered Persian leopard cubs are intended to reintroduce the species to the Sochi area
Three Persian leopard cubs have been released into the Sochi area of Russia's western Caucasus, a day after UNESCO threatened to deem the area a "world heritage site in danger" because of a planned ski resort expansion.
Photo by Anton Agarkov, WWF-Russia
Persian leopards once prowled across the Caucasus mountains in great numbers but poaching, poisoning and human encroachment wiped out the species in Russia, in the early 20th century.
The new reintroduction plan was intended to lay the foundation for a new population of the charismatic big cats, which are now thought to number less than 500 across central Asia.
But conservationists say that a recent vote in the Russian parliament to weaken environmental protections, and allow new ski trail constructions in Sochi, will cut off a vital corridor to Turkmenistan for the free-roaming animals.
Igor Chestin, the CEO of WWF Russia said: "We had hoped to release these very special leopards into a secure environment. Instead they will enter the unknown. The future of the western Caucasus is hanging in the balance."
At a conference in Istanbul on Thursday, the world conservation body, UNESCO, warned that the Russian parliament's vote could have "negative impacts" on the Persian leopards' reintroduction.
Construction of large-scale infrastructure on the site could lead to its being placed on the list of world heritage sites in danger, the committee agreed. But it declined to do so immediately, despite pleas from conservationists.
WWF Russia says it wants the International Olympic Committee to be more proactive in pressuring Russia to honor environmental promises made at the time of the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
At the time, Russia pledged to expand two protection areas around the world heritage site. Last week however, Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, signed off an amendment to allow new ski constructions within the site itself.
The original groundbreaking plan to bring the endangered leopard species back from the dead envisaged 100 big cats returning to the region's forests and mountains.
These would have followed traditional migratory routes to mate with female cats in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. If the ski resorts are built as planned though, no more than 30-40 big cats will establish themselves in the western Caucasus, Chestin said.
"The development of ski resorts will destroy the connectivity of the protected area between the central and western Caucasus where leopards are still occasionally …more
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How Butterfly Farmers Are Safeguarding the Forest in Kenya
Community-based conservation project helps transform former loggers into forest advocates
An innovative community-based conservation project that was started more than 20 years ago near the Kenyan coast is paying off. Former illegal loggers are now embracing butterfly rearing as a conservation model, earning money from their butterfly enterprises while safeguarding Kenya's forest ecosystems.
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Coastal forests in East Africa once stretched from southern Somalia, through Kenya and Tanzania, and all the way south to Mozambique. However, these forestlands have long suffered from deforestation. Now, Kenya's Arabuko Sokoke forest, which encompasses 42,000 hectares and is protected as a national forest reserve, represents the largest remaining block of coastal forest in the region.
Arabuko Sokoke is a treasure trove of endemic plants and animals, and is home to some of the most endangered species globally. More than 230 bird species live in the forest, among them rare species including the Clarke's weaver bird, Pemba sunbird, and Sokoke scops owl. Endangered mammals like the African golden cat, the African elephant, Ader's duiker, and bushy tailed Mongoose also live in the forest, as do 200 different butterfly species.
But the communities living around the forest have traditionally relied on it for their livelihood. From felling trees for sale to using timber for personal use, the communities for years played cat and mouse with the Kenyan government, which imposed a countrywide ban on logging in all public forests in 1999. Local conservationists, concerned about the impacts of illegal logging on this essential forest habitat, came up with an idea of creating nature based businesses like butterfly farming that would allow surrounding communities to transition to being forest protectors.
"We were losing the forest at a very fast rate," said Shariff Mwandawiro a local community leader who was among the first butterfly farmers and who conducts conservation trainings in the community. "Dozens of trucks would be packed right inside the forest every day. The sounds of power saws and falling trees never stopped. We had to look for a way to stop it. But it had to be more rewarding to the communities than what they were currently getting."
In 1993, with funding from the United Nations Development Programme, Kipepeo butterfly project was launched. (Kipepeo is Swahili for butterfly). The program involves introducing and training local communities in butterfly farming, monitoring activities to ensure sustainability of operations, and coordinating sales.
"We wanted the …more
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The Young and the Restless
The story of two giant otters in Peru's Manu National Park
Cocha Otorongo, Manu National Park, Peru, 1993, 5:15 am. The otters stir in their den. A series of soft cooing sounds, followed by the characteristic "Let's go" hum, indicates the family is ready to start the day. A moment later, Isla's parents emerge. Together they visit the nearby latrine, their broad, flattened tails held high, before thoroughly spreading their scat. The circling movements of their forepaws and simultaneous shuffling of their hind legs combine in a comical scent-marking dance. Next, three-year old Isla appears at the entrance of the den. Unlike her parents, she pauses only briefly on the latrine, and is followed in rapid succession by her siblings, all of whom eagerly rush into the water. Their father does the work for them, waddling once more over the latrine to mix their scat. He is the last to leave the den site. The group sets off along the shoreline, just as a gossamer mist lifts from the surface of the water.
Photo by Frank Hajek
Cocha Cashu, Manu National Park, Peru, 1993, 5:40 am. Dedo awakens. He will not hunt on the lake today. For a while now he has been feeling restless; the urge is upon him to find a mate and raise cubs of his own, in his own territory. It is the end of the dry season, water levels are at their lowest, and fish are readily accessible. After two carefree years with his family, the time has come to leave the only home he's known. He slips out of the hollow amongst the tree roots where he has spent the night and enters the water. As he heads toward the far end of the lake, he sees his family. They are fishing along the shore and don't notice him. He swims past them quietly and purposefully, and without looking back, enters the channel that will lead him to the Manu River.
Between 1999 and 2006, my husband, Frank, and I spent many months in the lush rainforests of southeastern Peru, monitoring and helping to protect populations of the endangered and charismatic giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) as part of a long-term and ongoing conservation program initiated by the Frankfurt Zoological Society in 1991. This is the story of Isla and Dedo, two young otters inhabiting the jewel that is Manu National Park, whose life histories became as familiar to us as the lives of favorite characters in a television …more
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In Canada, Oil Sands Workers Are Building a Greener Energy Sector
Worker-led initiative trains tradespeople in renewable energy to join help them join bourgeoning industry
Over the six years that Lliam Hildebrand worked in Alberta's oil sands, he regularly broached a subject around the lunch table that he expected to be taboo: renewable energy. But Hildebrand, a journeyman welder and steel fabricator based in Victoria, British Columbia, found that the topic was front of mind for many workers, himself included.
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"I've always been environmentally minded, and always had a bit of a personal struggle with working in the oil sands and the contributions to climate change," Hildebrand says. "I found in the conversations I was having with the tradespeople up there, it was a shared experience… they're interested in innovation and technology and they care about the future of the planet for their children."
Hildebrand previously worked at a steel fabricating shop in Victoria, B.C., building pressure vessels for the oil sands and ship loaders for coal terminals. Later, he watched the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth while working on a windfarm weather station at the shop. He realized that tradespeople could play a key role in building renewable energy infrastructure. "I started on a path to try and figure out how to make these things work in sync with each other," he says.
His lunchtime conversations, combined with the atmosphere in Alberta – falling oil prices have led to massive job losses, while the provincial government has introduced a new climate policy – then encouraged Hildebrand to act.
He formally launched Iron & Earth, a worker-led initiative aiming to train tradespeople in renewable energy, in March 2016. Oil and gas workers have transferable skills, the organization posits, and they want to be part of building a greener energy industry in Canada. So why not help them get supplemental training to join this bourgeoning industry?
"It's about time Canada starts diversifying our energy grid," says Hildebrand, now executive director of Iron & Earth. "We can build products we're proud of and contribute to preventing global warming – and provide greater economic security and energy stability in Canada."
A shared vision
The organization is led by Hildebrand and four directors – all tradespeople – who have worked or are working in Alberta. More than 450 members from various trades have joined Iron & Earth and expressed interest in training programs, including boilermakers, electricians, pipe fitters, ironworkers and labourers.
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A powerful car bomb critically injured the running mate of Moscow's mayor Friday, triggering fresh fears of violence and civil unrest as the Russian presidential campaign reaches a climax.
Valery Shantsev, who was running on the ticket with Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, was seriously burned when a radio-controlled bomb went off under his car as he left his apartment complex Friday morning. An aide and a passerby were also injured.
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A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Himby Michael Takiff
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Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life from the cradle to the present day, not even Clinton's own account, My Life. More troubling/i>
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Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life from the cradle to the present day, not even Clinton's own account, My Life. More troubling still, books on Clinton have tended to be highly polarized, casting the former president in an overly positive or negative light.
In this, the first complete oral history of Clinton's life, historian Michael Takiff presents the first truly balanced book on one of our nation's most controversial and fascinating presidents. Through more than 150 chronologically arranged interviews with key figures including Bob Dole, James Carville, and Tom Brokaw, among many others, A Complicated Man goes far beyond the well-worn party-line territory to capture the larger-than-life essence of Clinton the man. With the tremendous attention given to the Lewinsky scandal, it is easy to overlook the president's humble upbringing, as well as his many achievements at home and abroad: the longest economic boom in American history, a balanced budget, successful intervention in the Balkans, and a series of landmark, if controversial, free-trade agreements. Through the candid recollections of Takiff's many subjects, A Complicated Man leaves no area unexplored, revealing the most complete and unexpected portrait of our forty-second president published to date.
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Small Town Boy: Hope, Arkansas
"He was supposed to come back and get her."
On the morning of May 18, 1946, Marie Baker and Maxie Fuller were on duty at the Southwestern Bell switchboard on Second Street in Hope, Arkansas, population 7,475. Both women were cousins of Virginia Cassidy Blythe, the twenty-two-year-old wartime bride of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a salesman she had met three years earlier in Shreveport, Louisiana, where she was studying nursing.
Marie Baker: I answered what was an inward, public signal. This operator told me, "We want the Eldridge Cassidy residence in Hope. We have an emergency for it." I turned around to Maxie and I said, "Oh, my lord, Maxie, something has happened. I'm getting an emergency call for the Eldridge Cassidy family." The cop—I guess it was the cop on the other end, in Missouri—said, "It's a death message."
Bill Blythe had set out the previous afternoon from Chicago, where, just out of the army, he had landed a job selling heavy equipment. He'd intended to drive all night to Hope to pick up his pregnant wife and bring her back up north. But three miles outside of Sikeston, Missouri, a front tire blew out, and the Buick spun out of control. Rescuers searched for the driver for two hours before finding him in a drainage ditch. He had escaped the overturned car only to drown in three feet of water.
Marie Baker: We knew it was Virginia's husband because we knew that he was supposed to come back and get her.
On August 19, fatherless, William Jefferson Blythe III was born. Later he would be called Bill Clinton.
"Laughing, happy, precious."
Margaret Polk was a distant cousin to Virginia, Bill's mother. Conrad Grisham and Myra Reese were first cousins to Virginia—their father and Virginia's mother, Edith Grisham Cassidy, were brother and sister. Like all three, Hugh Reese, Myra's husband, was a longtime resident of Hope. Grisham and Hugh Reese are now deceased.
Margaret Polk: You could tell Clinton was going to be something from the time he was born. The Lord just cut him out to be something.
Conrad Grisham: Virginia went to school not long after Bill was born. That's the reason her mother, Aunt Edith, raised him for his first few years. Aunt Edith loved Bill like her own child. "Eat, Billy, eat now, eat," she'd say, with him in the high chair. It's a wonder he hadn't been overweight more than he was those first few years, because she believed in children having plenty to eat.
Just after Bill turned one, his mother left for New Orleans, where for two years she would study to be a nurse-anesthetist. She returned when she could, but while she was gone she left her son in the care of her parents, Edith and Eldridge Cassidy, whom Bill knew as Mammaw and Papaw.
Myra Reese: Aunt Edith took the responsibility of teaching him. I'd be there at mealtime. As he was eating she was showing him flashcards—ABCs and s. In the living room of that old house was a coffee table and that's where they had their study time. She had it filled with kindergarten books and preschool books. She had him reading when he was three.
He was never hard as a child. Aunt Edith would say that he had just as soon play with a powder can and a spoon as to have a new rattler. He didn't demand things.
Margaret Polk: Laughing, happy, precious, and the best thing!
Myra Reese: Aunt Edith drove this huge Buick. On Saturday she would drop the two of us o at the movie theater. That was about the extent of the entertainment in Hope, especially for that age child—he must have been six. I babysat him for the Saturday Westerns.
Myra Reese is seven years Bill's senior.
That let Aunt Edith go do her shopping. We would stay there for hours. It was no problem. He was a very well-behaved child.
The theater isn't here anymore. It was called the Saenger.
Hugh Reese: It was in downtown Hope on Second Street, near the Frisco Railroad. It was a very elaborate theater, real fancy, with a balcony. The balcony was for so-called "colored people."
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George Wright Jr. was Bill's contemporary in Hope.
George Wright Jr.: All physicians' offices had a white waiting room and a colored waiting room. And that's what they had on the door. All restaurants had a colored section and a white section.
Hugh Reese: We had a black high school, grade school, grammar school. We had a white high school, grade school, grammar school. All the churches: white Methodist, black Methodist; white Baptist, black Baptist.
George Wright Jr.: That's just the way we grew up in the small-town South. They had their section and we had our section. We never did mix that much.
Hugh Reese: Hope was typical. We were just like 99 percent of the other southern towns.
Raised on a farm, with only a fifth-grade education, James Eldridge Cassidy, Bill's grandfather, made deliveries for Southern Ice.
Hugh Reese: Eldridge had been an ice man before Bill was born. Then he got the grocery store.
Tom Purvis: Back at that time there were quite a few iceboxes in town—not electric refrigerators, iceboxes—and he delivered ice.
Tom Purvis, a few years older than Virginia, moved to Hope in 1941. Mary Nell Turner, around the same age as Purvis, was born in Hope.
Mary Nell Turner: Icebox—open the door and put the ice in.
Hugh Reese: An outgoing, friendly, sociable guy. Gregarious. Billy inherits some of his charisma from his Grandpa Eldridge, I'm sure.
Margaret Polk: He was a ladies' man. He had another man on the ice route with him and he would send him on ahead, away from his girlfriend's house.
Myra Reese: As grocery stores go today, his was very small. He had a wood-burning stove in it. And a couple or three chairs sitting around, so that people did go in and gather and talk.
He bootlegged out of that store.
Hempstead County had gone dry in 1944.
That brought in a little extra income and attention.
Marie Baker: Virginia said he had something in the bottom of the apple barrel. Everybody in Hope knew that.
Margaret Polk: Another thing I want to tell. Edith bootlegged. She did, because we bought whiskey from her. Right out of that house!
Hugh Reese: North Hazel Street, where Eldridge had his store, was black. He had primarily black trade. Eldridge was very popular with the blacks. He didn't make any dierence between a black man and a white man as far as coming in to do business with him. I'm sure Bill was influenced by that.
Joe Purvis: His grandfather treated everybody just the same.
Joe Purvis, Tom's son, attended kindergarten with Bill.
I don't think that was unusual in itself. I think the thing that made it unusual for Bill was that his dad was not around. I don't remember anybody else who was divorced or without two parents at that time. I'm sure Mr. Cassidy had an undue influence on Bill since he was the only male adult in his life for a while.
Decades later, Bill would still point to the lesson he learned from his grandfather, "an uneducated rural southerner without a racist bone in his body."
An imposing, heavyset woman, Edith Cassidy, Bill's grandmother, worked as a private-duty nurse. Whereas Eldridge was likable and easygoing, Edith was competent and industrious—and not content with the modest income her husband brought home.
Myra Reese: Aunt Edith and Uncle Eldridge would have their spats. Heated arguments. Eldridge drank quite a bit, and Aunt Edith didn't, and she didn't approve of that. Aunt Edith was a very, very opinionated person. Everything had to go her way or no way. He was a meek man.
Margaret Polk: She had hellfire in her, but she was a good woman. Eldridge was just as humble as a poor little kitten. She just bossed him like he was her little boy, but he didn't seem to mind. He'd go along with everything she said and wanted him to do. Now, I wouldn't say they were mean, she and Virginia, but they had a streak of hell in them.
Hugh Reese: Edith was the most prominent nurse in town. Really talented as far as the medical aspects of it, and then a great bedside manner. She would come in, pat you on the back, and say, "You're looking great this morning. You're improving wonderfully."
Joe Purvis: A lot of the nurses back then would wear nurses' outfits, and they'd wear these capes. A cape added an air of mystery to a lady, like somebody you'd see in one of the serials on Saturday at the "picture show," as we called it. I have memories of her picking Bill up at kindergarten with that kind of a cape on.
Kindergarten was held at Miss Marie Purkins' School for Little Folks.
There were two sisters who owned the kindergarten: the Purkins sisters, both of whom were old maids.
The kindergarten was in their backyard. It was built like a small schoolhouse, with a bell that you would ring. There was one big open room. There were probably anywhere from thirty to fifty kids in that school at any one time. There was no public kindergarten then.
Bill very much was a good guy. I remember on several occasions different folks would get into it, and before an actual fistfight would break out Bill would be brokering the peace, saying, "You guys don't want to be mad at each other." He was a peacemaker.
He's always had some amazing abilities.
"Had a tremendous warm smile."
Conrad Grisham: Virginia had her mind on the future, even in high school. She had her mind on that nursing degree and went to Louisiana to school. She finally went to school enough that she was a registered anesthetist. That was her trade in the nursing business.
Margaret Polk: They worked at the same hospital—Virginia worked days and Edith worked nights.
Virginia and her son still lived with her parents in their two-and-a-half-story house on Hervey Street. With the two women of the house working, the child of the house needed another caregiver.
Donna Taylor Wingfield: Of course, both Billy and I had black nannies.
Donna Taylor Wingfield was also a classmate of Bill's at Miss Marie's.
Margaret Polk: That old colored woman would work for them, to stay over here in the morning after Virginia went to work, about six-thirty or seven until about eleven-thirty or noon.
Conrad Grisham: Virginia was really easygoing. I never saw her get mad.
Joe Purvis: Virginia was always a laughing and fun-loving lady. Had a tremendous warm smile. In fact, in every memory I have of Virginia from growing up she was smiling.
On the other hand ...
Margaret Polk: You better not cross her, because she'd be as mean as hell. She'd cuss you out.
Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty III attended kindergarten with Bill. He would be Bill's first White House chief of staff.
Mack McLarty: She was a truly loving and caring mother.
Margaret Polk: She smoked and drank. But she was a good nurse.
"Roger had bought her a lot of pretty clothes."
A frequent visitor to Eldridge Cassidy's grocery store—a man who supplied some of the liquor sold under Papaw's counter—was a car dealer who had moved to Hope from Hot Springs.
Hugh Reese: Physically, Roger Clinton was of real short stature. And real nice looking. Dark curly hair. Well dressed all the time. What we'd call a high roller in his gambling. He liked to party.
His brother Raymond owned the largest Buick distributorship in Arkansas, in Hot Springs. The Buick distributorship here came open for sale, and Roger got word of it through the GM grapevine. And came and bought it. That's why he came from Hot Springs to Hope. He was very successful here in that business.
Car dealerships were highly profitable, and you drove a new car yourself all the time. Your salesmen drove a new car. It was a very lucrative business. Especially GM.
The father of Donna Taylor Wingfield worked for Clinton Buick in Hope.
Donna Taylor Wingfield: It was a good dealership, a good business—made us all a good living. We weren't rich, but we weren't poor.
Hugh Reese: Not many Arkansans had a Cadillac in those days. Buicks were high up on the hog.
Even after discovering another woman's lingerie in Roger's apartment, Virginia decided to marry him.
Margaret Polk: Roger had bought her a lot of pretty clothes. He'd given her beautiful things, and Edith just tied them up in the backyard and burned them. She was just that kind of person. Edith did that, the mother of Virginia. Because she didn't want Virginia to have anything to do with Clinton.
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Once again Michael Takiff takes the reader on fabulous journey drawn on the recollections of those who know the stories best. These balanced interviews capture the essence of America's most fascinating tragic hero; Bill Clinton. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the man and every political junkie.
"A Complicated Man" by Michael Takiff, an engrossing read, is a major addition to Clinton lore. Seeing Clinton through the eyes of those who have interacted with him, we get a complete and penetrating view of this iconic figure. This book rates a minimum of five stars.
If you want to increase your understanding of one of the most influential leaders of the last 50 years, you need to hear it from those who knew him best. This 360-view of Bill Clinton enables you to see not only what happened when, but to see it from the many perspectives of those around him. Likely to change your perecptions by providing you with facts and perspectives, not "spin". If it is true that the truth lies in the middle, this may just be the middle.
A Complicated Man, is a four hundred page book about a previous president of the United States, Bill Clinton. It's goal is to explain more about the man Bill Clinton, and his interesting term of office as the United States president. The book also tries to accomplish it's goal in a non-biased way. However, in my opinion, A Complicated Man fails to live up to such a standard. This book was highly interesting me, because it was the first book I read that used more quotes than writing from the actual author. The author of the book, Michael Takiff, has obviously worked his tail off reading, and conducting interviews to construct his book on Clinton. In fact, Takiff used about forty pages of notes describing where he got his information and the People he quoted ranged from Clinton's personal friends, to people who worked with him, to political enemies. Since biographies are usually not interesting for me, it was shocking how interesting this book was compared to how interesting I thought it would be. Besides interesting me with his amazing amount of quotes, the author also frustrated me with some of the thoughts he imputed, and several quotes that he included. The book quoted political and personal friends at the very least, twice as much as it quoted people who did not agree with Clinton. Another thing, When he added a comment by an opponent, it was usually addressed in one of the next quotes. However, when a quote was hostile towards a Republican, the author would typically not include a quote defending or explaining the Republican side. Besides the quotes, some of the authors own thoughts were hostile toward Republicans. Take for example, this quote talking about the outcome of Bill Clinton's failures, resulting in Bush Jr. getting into office. "Bill's dalliance with Monica, therefore, cost the nation not only what might have been done between January 1998 and January 2001 but what might have been done, and what was done instead, over the eight years that followed (George Bush Jr.'s presidential term): instead of responsible fiscal stewardship, endless red ink. Instead of a budget surplus bolstering Social Security or funding education and infrastructure, trillions squandered on upper-income tax cuts and an unnecessary war. In place of a Federal Emergency Management Agency run by competent professionals, a dumping ground for political hacks- thus, instead of a timely, compassionate response to a natural disaster, the drowning of New Orleans. Instead of judicious use of America's armed forces, an ill-begotten, counterproductive war, entered into deceitfully and conducted unforgivably. Instead of an America respected around the world, an America reviled around the world…." Page 394 This is a huge chunk of text, all aimed like a loaded shotgun at Bush. Takiff basically suggested that if Gore had been in office instead, almost nothing bad would have happened, and that Bush basically ruined the country. How could he possibly know what Gore would have done? For all the author knows, Gore could have done the exact same thing. Finally, throughout the book, people who disagreed with Clinton's policies were described as hating Clinton. Page four and five have a good example. The author suggests that Republicans hated Clinton for making policies in an area which Republicans usually dominated. Also this quote from pages four and five is disturbing " was it that Republicans simply could not accept the fact that their most prized possession, the presidency, had been taken from them.?" Michael is suggesting that most Republicans hated Clinton for being a democrat president in a long line of republican presidents. Yes, there is a possibility that some Republicans hated him for this reason. But the author's generalization stating that all Republicans hated him for this reason, is just plain wrong. I have no problem with Clinton ( except for his trouble with keeping his pants on) as a person, but I did not like many of his policies that I now better understand as I have gotten older. Michael could have easily suggested that some Republicans disliked Clinton for policy reasons, implying that he either does not understand the conservative perspective, or he wishes to belittle conservatives by imputing a petty reason for their dislike of Clinton. In spite of these small grievances, I really enjoyed the book. It gave a very detailed history of Clinton, starting at childhood up to present day. I also respect the Author's attempt at being non-biased. Many authors for both political parties do not even try to avoid bias. I highly respect the author for trying hard to not be biased. Out of five stars, I think I would give this book a 3.5. I would also suggest this book to people who enjoy political books that are seventeen and older, as some of the scenes described in the section covering Clinton's affair are a bit graphic. To sum everything up, this was a good book, with a good attempt at removing bias, even though I do not believe that Takiff succeeded. and I would definitely read it aga


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A Yahoo! User Jul 6, 2005 15:34 Flag
Peter Crouch
Can somebody please tell me what it is about this 6" 7' bean pole because i fail to see it. A half decent season does not make him Liverpool FC standard. Add to that the fact we are competing with West Ham (no offence lads),for his services. We have lost Gerard because we are not signing quality players, simple as, its not money, but to see the European Champions chasing that standard of player must have been the straw that broke the camels backSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
A Yahoo! User Aug 2, 2005 21:02 Flag
why spend money like that on a player like him we should of just added a bit more money and got owen back we all know he would bring in more sucess.
i disagree with you. just think.... if he was able to score all those goals last season with that crapy team... imagine what he'll be able to do with a real team behind him, plus... just look at how well he did against olimpiakos. i have faith in rafa and he's decisions and i'm sure crouch will probe to be a great buy.
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he can't be any worse than cisse has been,give him a chance,if he does ok madrid will give us big money for him!!!
Don't judge him because he has come from a lesser team (no disrespect), Why waste £20m on a supposed world class striker who in the end doesn't cut the grade and ends up going for a fraction of the price. Most clubs in the top flight have wasted money on "world class" players who are meant to be the next best thing but fade away after a season or two. Peter Crouch is a far more promising aquasition, he is obviously judged for his height but he has proved he has a deft touch and can hold the ball too. He is still young and with Rafas nurturing could end up being our leading goalscorer and a Michael Owens partner for England. You don't have to have a team full of superstars to be succesfull as we proved in last years European cup and also Greece winning Euro 2004. A good team spirit is more essential then a multi million pound squad of superstars. Viva la Rafalution.
I can't believe we have signed Crouch and Zenden both very average players in my eyes and I don't think they will make the difference and reduce the 37 point gap between us and Chelsea . another long season ahead .
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I disagree with you, see balance in a team is important, together the lesser quality players will begin to play like the better players, improving the whole squad, i think Crouch will be good, hes different, and maybe be looked down on, which is good for him. My guess is people won't take im seriously enough, up until he scores 2 goals, only then will it click with the other teams, that he is a threat.
lets just see what happens, he might be great, but i can't see him being terrible either.
we have a good team, one worthy of contesting with the likes of Chelsea, ManU and arsenel, I have complete faith in Rafa.
A Yahoo! User Jul 20, 2005 20:56 Flag
You know what?A striker don't just has to score many goals to let everyone know what he can do.In football,besides to score many goal,it must has some important things like possesion,teamwork etc. With 6" 7',this lads can make some defender feel like heading is a toughest things to do.So,I don't blame anyone to make such opinion,but,we just wait and see what he can do(hope he can do the job).
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A Yahoo! User Jul 21, 2005 17:53 Flag
I'll admit, i too have fears about his abililty and what he brings to our line-up apart from his height. But the fact is, since heskey, our front men have all fitted a similar frame, small in stature, speedy and relatively weak. That's why most of our attacking play is focused down the middle, It's why we get so many goals from the midfield, but it's also why it's easier for teams like blackburn to defend in numbers and keep us out. Crouch, if nothing else will give the like's of Garcia, Riise, Zenden and others, something to aim at. There's no doubt he will win a fair share and hopefully can set things up for the likes of cisse and morientes. He's also not a selfish player, seems to have some amount of awareness and has a decent pass as well. He can be a big asset (no pun intended) to our attacking line-up, let's all hope it turns out that way.
Scouse and Proud.
A Yahoo! User Jul 20, 2005 06:27 Flag
TO ALL Saints Fans and Scousers :
Crouch the Clown is not worth 11 or 12 pence - look what he did at the end of last season .... didn't think (difficult when you've no brain !) and got himself banned from the Super Saints most important game of the season - the long streak of pi$$ wouldn't get a game for a Sunday pub side - I'll be watching quality PREMIERSHIP football at Pompey or Wigan next season ....hope you Saints fans like watching your sorry team play Luton Town on a wet Wednesday night, still it will be interesting when Plymouth or Sheffield Wednesday visit (keep your big fat head down Rupert)
and for you Liverpool fans......
please please please buy this assho%$ and put the South coast out of their misery ................
A Yahoo! User Jul 19, 2005 17:12 Flag
I reckon Crouch will probably be another Heskey, have his useful moments but never really be fully appreciated for his efforts. It would however be good to have some more English players in the side and I'm afraid the only English striker that should be upfront is Owen, but I guess that is unlikely.
I sincerely hope that Benitez does not sign Crouch - he's an average player - Liverpool needs worldclass players up front.
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A Yahoo! User Jul 19, 2005 23:03 Flag
maybe he needs some hight in the reserve team
I am a Southampton fan and that was good but Peter Crouch had a really good season and nearly kept them up but obviously didnt so i dont agree with you 100%
A Yahoo! User Jul 15, 2005 19:58 Flag
I totally agree although a little late, crouch to Liverpool, who would he partner. It just wont look right unless we get big dunc in, imagine that!!
Why not get a little talent, how's about Fernando Torres he wont have any problems feeling at home.
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Fernando Torres would definately be a good signing for Pool, but I don't think his club wants to let him go. Rafa has done quite well in the market so far though, so you never know...www.SoccerGossip.com
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